Past Exhibitions

2015

Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits

Direct Carving

2014

The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art

Richard Estes’ Realism

Untitled: The Art of James Castle

Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget

Pop Art Prints

Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection

2013

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby

A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets

Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (3.0)

Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color

Pictures in the Parlor

2012

Nam June Paik: Global Visionary

The Civil War and American Art

40 under 40: Craft Futures

Abstract Drawings

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond

Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (2.0)

The Art of Video Games

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

2011

Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection

Multiplicity

Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House

Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection

The Great American Hall of Wonders

History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America

Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families

2010

Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (1.0)

Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow

A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection

John Gossage: The Pond

Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence

The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946

Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

2009

What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect

Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009

Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Grand Salon Installation-Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Jean Shin: Common Threads

The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene

1934: A New Deal for Artists

2008

Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke

Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

See also: Past SAAM Exhibitions and Installations, 1958-2016 [PDF]